Charlie Jane Anders
Laurence and Patricia are lifelong friends, having met in middle school. They were each the oddball, and so by default gravitated to each other. But Laurence was tech and Patricia was nature. The first third of the book develops their world and sets the stage for the relationship. Unfortunately, it almost lost me in clearly YA tone. That is, I felt like the writing was intentionally geared to appeal to youth. Which is different that YA that is written with themes that appeal to youth, but written to treat the youth as adult minds. So strike one. But after that introductory third, the story gets engaging enough to hold me in. This becomes a battle (albeit mostly of ideas) between tech and nature, and really becomes a treatise for how it is not either, but both, that we must learn how to navigate. A nice little allegory.
3 stars (out of 4)
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